Guild Wars 2

So the other day I was saying how there is a thief build that can kill me in 0.5-1 second and people said I was lying. Well I decided to get proof on this build and found someone who was willing to help, It takes 1 second to chunk me from full health to 0.

Enjoy the power of the burst.

For those interested in my stats:
1653 – Toughness
2572 – Armor

First of all your an Ele so your toughness is not as effective as your armor is only light. Secondly the Theif could be using full glass cannon gear and relying on the culling issue to get him kills. Theifs can get crazy stacks of might with full utility of venoms or even signets. I would suggest carrying Mist form and not being afraid to use it.

In my experiance D/D eles like to have reckless abandant when only a couple can actually pull it off to a tee. If you get 1 banged so be it at the end of the day realise thats what theifs do, make a theif and mess around with them they have very high spike but little to none skills which heal besides their main heal skill

fancy dagger feast.7520:

First of all your an Ele so your toughness is not as effective as your armor is only light. Secondly the Theif could be using full glass cannon gear and relying on the culling issue to get him kills. Theifs can get crazy stacks of might with full utility of venoms or even signets. I would suggest carrying Mist form and not being afraid to use it.

In my experiance D/D eles like to have reckless abandant when only a couple can actually pull it off to a tee. If you get 1 banged so be it at the end of the day realise thats what theifs do, make a theif and mess around with them they have very high spike but little to none skills which heal besides their main heal skill

Are you seriously trying to justify being bursted down in one second even though all my gear has some sort of toughness stat on it?

You literally have 1 second to press Mist Form if not you are dead. Is this the type of balance we are going for?

fancy dagger feast.7520:

First of all your an Ele so your toughness is not as effective as your armor is only light.

So you think a nontanky Ele should be bursted in .5 secs from stealth?

Yeah that can happen in WvW. Can this thief wipe out a group with that trick? Can they make a noticable contribution to a siege with that trick?

Thieves are great at small objectives, but their trade off is they don’t bring much to the table in large scale fights. Least effective at attacking keeps, even worse at defending keeps.

LIGHT OR HEAVY, I do not care

Any skill that hits an Elementalist in one shot for over 13,000 damage when the player is at full toughness/vitality/power build is overpowered. 10,805 Health is the base an Elementalist gets and so you are telling the world that if the Elementalist was playing a Glass Cannon Build, he would sustain what….15 – 18K damage in one hit?

Sorry, that is overpowered as hell.

I can understand if the elementalist was a glass cannon build being killed in one shot, but this is a full defense/tank build. I don’t care if its light armor, that is a poor excuse.

Proof eh? lol

Also learn when to dodge. The is on base survivability stats. HP is low and has no toughness.

Not hard to counter at all.

fancy dagger feast.7520:

First of all your an Ele so your toughness is not as effective as your armor is only light.

The OP supplied their armor which is all that matters. And honestly that is a very decent level of armor.

Weird, my backstab usually only crits for 4k on D/D bunkers.

Wasn’t 1 shot, it was 3 and 1 of them is on a cooldown of 45 seconds. Can’t d/d ele’s aoe for 4k on 5 people? That’s 20k dmg.

All about perspective people, that thief can only hit you. Your d/d ele can hit 5. So what do you want to play?

Setsunayaki.4907:

LIGHT OR HEAVY, I do not care

Any skill that hits an Elementalist in one shot for over 13,000 damage when the player is at full toughness/vitality/power build is overpowered. 10,805 Health is the base an Elementalist gets and so you are telling the world that if the Elementalist was playing a Glass Cannon Build, he would sustain what….15 – 18K damage in one hit?

Sorry, that is overpowered as hell.

I can understand if the elementalist was a glass cannon build being killed in one shot, but this is a full defense/tank build. I don’t care if its light armor, that is a poor excuse.

BTW, you may want to concern yourself on classes that can hit WAY harder than thief. I can think of a few. Warrior being one of them. There rifles can hit over 30k and secondly, 100blades. Enough said.. lol

Thief is the last thing I’m worried about

jaegerx.1693:

Wasn’t 1 shot, it was 3 and 1 of them is on a cooldown of 45 seconds. Can’t d/d ele’s aoe for 4k on 5 people? That’s 20k dmg.

All about perspective people, that thief can only hit you. Your d/d ele can hit 5. So what do you want to play?

Actually I have seen aoe up as high as 9k from AOE

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The thief and its gameplay: Your feedback

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